ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,053, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MONAHAN PRODUCTS LLC (Rockland, Mass.).

"Infant care apparatus" was invented by Richard Juchniewicz (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infant care apparatus including a base, a drive, an infant support, and a controller. The a drive is coupled to the base and has a first electromechanical driver defining a first degree of freedom forming a first axis of motion of a movable infant load seat surface dependent from and movable relative to the base. The infant support is removably coupled to the movable infant load seat surface. The drive is a distributed drive distributed to the base an...